6.15.2011

Bonus gem

"Bill Gates - Until Gates can ensure me that his efforts to help feed Africa are devoid of corporate controlled GMOs he'll never be green to me. Grade: D. Some more human scale efforts to feeding Africa would"

More like a D Minus to me. But it's not because of the GMOs. Bill is one of those industry vortex people who believes, with an iron rigidity, there are simply one or two silver-plated pathways to sustainable development: nuclear energy and geoengineering. Zing!

And not only that, he attempts to destroy potential solutions that he doesn't personally think fit into those two pathways (lame-o "cutesy" stuff like energy efficiency). Which, awkwardly enough, is at odds with his lament in a recent essay on climate policy:

“The world is distracted from what counts on this issue in a big way,” he wrote.

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New Yorker by the way of London, working with changemakers to transform organizations from within.
Things I can't help reading about: energy, transparency, leadership, and business disruption (the good, the bad and the ugly). Things you'll find on this blog: all of the above, plus a healthy dose of greenwashing.